Seminars

Examples of seminars given by Members of Chambers:

ADR/Alternative Dispute Resolution

ADR and Mediation Topics

• All about ADR (1½ - 2 hour seminar)


• The Lawyer's Role in Mediation (1½ hour seminar)


• Mediation Awareness Training for Commercial Lawyers (Two day interactive training session) - available through ACI


• ADR in Professional Negligence Disputes (1½ hour seminar)


• ADR in Insurance Cases (1½ hour seminar)


• ADR For P&I Clubs and Insurance Companies (2 hour Seminar)


• IT mediation: Avoiding Pitfalls (1 hour seminar)


• Mediation Awareness Training for Government Lawyers (One day interactive training session) - available through ACI


• Challenging an Expert Determination (1 hour seminar)


• Enforceability of Mediation Clauses and Expert Determination (1 hour seminar)


• Drafting a Position Statement in Mediation and Preparing for Mediation (1½ hour seminar)

Arbitration Topics

• Setting Aside Arbitration Awards under 1996 Act (1 hour seminar)


• Management and Control of an Arbitration (1 hour seminar)


• What Can Go Wrong in Arbitrations: Hussmann - a Case Study
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Banking & Financial Services

• Banker's Liability for Advice


• Bankers and Undue Influence


• Breach of Confidence


• Cheques


• Claims for Interest after Sempra v IRC
  
• Current Issues in Retail Banking


• Documentary Credits/Performance Bonds


• FSA Investigations/Enforcement


• Hedge Funds: the current state of play and looking over the horizon
  
• Market Abuse/Regulator's Enquiries


• Money Laundering/Tipping Off


• Risks and Liabilities Arising from Banker's References


• UK Anti-money Laundering Regime

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Entertainment & Media

• Misuse of Confidential Information


• Rights of Privacy and the Media


• Contractual Issues for Music Lawyers


• Liability of Company Directors for Copyright Infringement after MCA v Charly

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Commercial Fraud

• The Effective Use of Interim Remedies in Fraud and Tracing Claims


• Pleading Fraud After the House of Lords Decision in Medcalf v Mardell


• Liability of Employees for Fraudulent Misstatements after Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan National Shipping Corporation
• Recent Cases on Piercing the Corporate Veil


• Constructive Trusts after Twinsectra


• Recent cases on Commercial Fraud
  
• Recent Developments in International Fraud


• The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the UK Anti-money Laundering Regime
  
• Points to Watch out for in Commercial Fraud Claims


• The Privilege Against Self-incrimination
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Information Technology

• IT disputes and How to Avoid Them


• Mediation of IT disputes
  
• Time Obligations in IT Contracts
  
• Termination of IT Projects
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Insolvency / Company

• Economic Torts after OBG
  
• Shareholder Disputes and Unfair Prejudice Petitions under s.459
CA 1985

• Fixed and Floating Charges


• Transactions at an Undervalue and Preferences


• Wrongful Trading Under s. 214 IA 1986


• The Duties of Company Directors


• Directors' Disqualification


• Restraint and Confiscation Orders and the New ARA


• Principles of Set-off Under Insolvency Law


• The Enterprise Act 2002

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Insurance / Professional Negligence

• Claims Against Barristers
  
• Identifying Contracts of Insurance: The Common Law & FSA Perimeter Guidance Instrument 2005 (FSA 2005/31), Chapter 6
  
• Liability of Investment Managers
  
• Loss of a Chance
  
• Negligent Directors: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and Relief from Liability
  
• Professional Indemnity Insurance: lessons from Enterprise Oil
  
• SAAMCo 10 Years on: Causation and Scope of Duty in Professional Negligence Cases
  
• Recent Developments in the Law relating to Contribution
  
• Recent Developments in The Law of Tort - The Liability of Sub-brokers and Other Sub-agents for Economic Loss
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General Commercial Litigation

• Case Management - the difficult role of the Court of Appeal
  
• Electronic disclosure and the CPR
  
• Everything You Need to Know about the Commercial Agents Regulations
  
• Pre-action disclosure and Norwich Pharcamal relief
  
• The Construction of Contracts - Recent Cases
• Three Rivers - Obtaining Documents from Third Parties'
  
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